Náva is a new mythological epic written by me, Mikael Lopez, and illustrated by PEOW Studio’sOlle Forsslöf, our second collaboration and very different from our first one, “The Man with All the Answers”. If there was a back cover to a digital comic it would say that Náva will take you “from the ruins of a dream to a city of children enslaved by their feral masters, providing and interlude of captivating storytelling, and finally arriving for an involuntary audience with a king and, perhaps, a deity”.

“I like to develop my consciousness so that I can understand why I am alive, what my body is and what I should do to work together with the plans of the universe.

I don’t like people who collect useless information and who create artificial behavior that imitates ‘important people’.

I like to respect others, not because of the narcissist deviations of their personalities, but for their inner development.

I don’t like people whose minds don’t know how to rest in silence, whose hearts judge others without end, whose sex lives unsatisfied, whose bodies intoxicate themselves without knowing how to appreciate being alive.

Every second is a sublime gift.

I like to grow old because time dissolves the unnecessary and preserves the essential.

I don’t like people who love childish lies and turn them into superstition.

I don’t like that theres is a Pope who preaches without sharing his soul with a Popess.

I don’t like that religion is in the hands of men who look down on women.

I like to collaborate and not compete.

I like do discover in all beings that eternal jewel that we can call ‘the inner God’.

I don’t like art that deifies the navel of the artist. I like art that can be used to heal.

I don’t like serious fools. I like people who spark laughter.

I like to voluntarily confront my suffering with the purpose of expanding my consciousness.”

The Man with All the Answers is a short story written by me, Mikael, and drawn by Olle Forsslöf of the infamous PEOW! Studio. It’s about garbage, knowledge, acknowledgment and anything you want it to be about. We’ll be posting more work from the two of us soon!

Martin shot and edited this trailer for Mari Carrasco’s (more about her in our “Counter-contemporary” interview) dance piece Haut starring dancers Alexander “A-Train” Dam and Bianca Traum (who modeled for us in “Elegant Excess”) with lighting by Tobias Hallgren. It’s described as “[c]ontemporary meets street in a duet [that] plays with the concept of freestyle where the dancers explore and experiment in the moment.”

I’ll skip the introduction for Amaliabecause you should know her and her voice by now (if you don’t, our one/two part interview from last year is a good start). The photo above by Martin, with spectacular styling by Brock, is a teaser poster for all the funky food that Amalia’s been cooking in her kitchen during the first half of 2012.

First out is Onra’sDeep in the Night EP including the smooth track V.B.B. featuring Amalia and rapper Jay Kin: